Medicine, Mobility, and Power in Global Africa

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Recent political, social, and economic changes in Africa have provokedradical shifts in the landscape of health and healthcare. Medicine, Mobility, andPower in Global Africa captures the multiple dynamics of a globalized world and itsimpact on medicine, health, and the delivery of healthcare in Africa--and beyond.Essays by an international group of contributors take on intractable problems suchas HIV/AIDS, malaria, and insufficient access to healthcare, drugs, resources, hospitals, and technologies. The movements of people and resources described hereexpose the growing challenges of poverty and public health, but they also show hownew opportunities have been created for transforming healthcare and promoting careand healing.